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Funny that the worse the Republicans are doing the more some people want to take the filters off of social media.
Right Wingers have always gotten preferential treatment and soft touch moderation on social media, because..
Their user base is fucking morons who click every ad, and buy tons of stupid shit (specially if it has their team name on it) bringing in disproportionate income
They know the bulk of their moderation problems are from Right wingers, and don't want to look biased and drive them away by holding them to the same standard they hold everyone else, So they just let the right wingers get away with shit that would get cracked down and account bans handed out for anyone else.
Their own algorithms have been proven to amplify right wing tweets, thus making it easier to find hate messages than it is to find anything else, because they are in bed with the right.
The commercial platforms had a dilemma: (1) They had existing policies against hate propaganda, incitement of violence, and harassment. (2) They wanted to seem at least mostly neutral on matters of partisan politics. And then (3) happened: one of the major parties started doing a lot of hate propaganda, incitement of violence, and harassment.
If Facebook, Twitter, etc. had been following their own stated policies, they would have taken down Trump much earlier. However, those policies were never obligations enforceable against the platform, and would have required those platform companies to explicitly state that they were taking down one of the major parties for not following the platform's rules on hate, violence, and harassment.
Eventually, advertisers communicated with their dollars, that they were not seeing a benefit to their brands from having their ads appear beside the increasingly deranged, criminal, and traitorous Trump.
Maybe that was the plan all along.
Turn Twitter into a turd soup
Educated people who don't click ads stop using Twitter
Save unproductive bandwidth
By quitting twitter I've gone along with Musk's plan. Damn it.
Musk isnt that smart.
Besides, a lot of those big advertisers don't mind advertising to racists/fashies/terrorists, as long as they have the plausible deniability of "Oh, we advertise on twitter, it has a vibrant user base, lets not let the unsavory types ruin it for everyone".
A deniability that goes away now that its been bought by a fashy white supremacist who is actively purging the site of anyone critical to fashy white supremacism.
No one but scummy companies like MyPillow and some asshole selling "gold" trump coins (totally legal tender!*) want to advertise to the creme of that crop.
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I'm gratified that you thought my dumb idea was smart...